MIX – Chapter 3 Released!

And here we go, first time releasing on the blog! MIX 3 is up for grabs on the usual places, which means you can head to Nyaa and get the chapter through torrent or view it online on batoto. Check the sidebar on the right for links.

Related to this chapter, a few notes:

– We noticed things might be a bit ‘confusing’ for some of the names, because while in japanese it‘s easy to see when Otomi refers to her biological father and to her stepfather, it’s not as easy to convey that in english. As such, every instance where she talks about “father”, she’s actually referring to Touma’s dad, her stepfather. On the same vein, if she talks about “Dad” or any other more intimate way of addressing a parent, you can assume she’s referring to her late, biological father. The same goes for Touma, where “Mother” refers to his stepmother, whereas “Mom” would be an indication of his late mother. However, something to note is that being a teeanger guy who gets along well with his father, he likes to call him “oyaji” (old man). The issue is that Souichirou also seems to treat his stepfather as “the old man”, and doesn’t go for “mom”, so his real mother is just that, “mother” to him. So, in this particular case you’ll have to rely a lot more on context to understand properly who is who. I hope this isn’t all too confusing, and if anyone has any questions, feel free to comment and we’ll do our best to help.

– On pages 13 and 14, Otomi makes a joke with Touma’s name, calling him “Tou-chan”, while telling him to stop complaining about her stepfather. This (Tou-chan) is one cute way of referring to your father, so she’s basically doing one of those characteristic Adachi wordplays here. We thought about going for “Toudad”, but it sounded pretty dumb and in the end, we kept it as is.

Thank so much for your effort in scanlatin Adachi’s newest work.
I must say that we Adachi’s fans are pretty lucky for always having the best scanlation quality among all mangas.
Please keep up with the good job.

I have a suggestion though. I think it’s better if you just put the romaji for the scanlation. That way the puns will be easier to understand, and the difference between honorifics (?) (oyaji, otousan, etc) will be clearer because English doesn’t have precise equivalents to those terms.

As you said in the notes included in this chapter, all Adachi fans were mourning the tragic retirement of Athie. I really appreciated you mentioning him because somehow, I hope he will read your work and see that he won’t be forgotten !

That being said, you did an awesome job so far. For a first scanlation, this is pretty impressive ! Keep up the good work !

Yeah, thought we should mention him, because at least for some of us, Athanor’s scanlations were really helpful in the past and of great use when I started to find out about Adachi. Plus, I really hope he’s doing better after what happened, and with some luck he’ll pop up and do some more great work someday, when he’s able to (hopefully) overcome what happened to him!

You’re doing a great job even though it’s your first time. I’m happy and appreciated that you mentioned Athanor in the message. He was the first to bring me to Adachi, things happened to him was such a tragedy. Keep up the good work I’ll always support you guys!

Thanks a lot!!!!!!!
I was so happy to find your releases of Mix!
I’m a great Adachi fan, whom I discovered thanks to Athanor… what a wonderful job he’s done for us… I really hope he’s better now, he deserves it.
Anyway, I’m happy to see that someone could take the baton (Touch!!!!) from him in the meantime: I still hope to see him back, because that would mean he is well.
To you working on Mix, thank you very much again, and keep it going as good as these first releases are!

PS does someone have any news about the other Adachi work, Over fence????

OverFence was announced as an irregular series, so it’s really up to him when/if it continues. Considering the MIX reception was astounding, to say the least (the first issue of Gessan had to be reprinted, because it sold out — that’s really rare for magazines), I think he’ll be pretty busy with keeping MIX going for the time being, so OverFence might not be released for quite some time, if ever again.

You really did a great job there, and thanks for the chapter. I have been Adachi’s fan from who-knows-when, so it’s good to see him still working hard.
Btw, do you have any intention of picking up Q&A? Because I already had the raws (to the end), and can also edit, so if a true fan like you help translating, it would be great.

Hey guys, thanks so much for picking this up! It’s awesome, and I’m so happy to have Adachi back in my life. Digit and I were going to see if we could put together a group to scanlate this, and it was a nice surprise to see someone beat us to it. 🙂

Anyway, while you guys are clearly doing a fantastic job so far, if there’s anything I can do to help please let me know. I can proofread, or harass other people into doing stuff.

I also appreciate the shoutout to Athanor, I think we’re all hoping he’s doing better.

First of all, I just wanted to echo the thanks you have already received from everyone here. Adachi is my favourite manga artist, and I am so excited both that this series exists in the first place and that wonderful people like you are working to bring this series to an English speaking audience.

Also, to be annoying, I must ask whether you are thinking of working on any more of Adachi’s work that is unscanlated or incompletely scanlated. This is kind of a roundabout way of me asking if I’ll ever be able to finish reading Slow Step in English or if I should just buy it in another language. It’s the only one of Adachi’s original series (aside from Q and A) that I have yet to finish.

In any case, thank you so much for your hard work on this series, and I absolutely cannot wait for the next chapter!

Thank you for sharing with us this promising new Adachi series; wonderful chapter, pure Adachi magic – I can’t wait for more. It’s astonishing: the baton passes, but it’s picked up time and again. Thank you.

I’ll post here since it’s been asked a couple times, but we’re sorry, right now with how packed our lives are we really don’t have the time to work on anything else, so there really aren’t any plans to scanlate the rest of Q&A and other Adachi series. Still, hope you guys keep on enjoying MIX, at the very least!

i just want to know more: in chapter 3 page 10, otomi said “better not! or it will become a dream again!”, in which rakugo was this line taken anh what’s its meaning???? i really can’t understand!!
also, thank u very much for scanlating this!!!